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Population 1820-1840
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Was higher than ever through high birth rate, good public health, and low epidemics.
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Population 1840-1860
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Good public health, high birth rate, low epidemics, and many immigrants coming in made the population boom more than Europe and most importantly Britain.
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Urbanization 1840-1860
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People were living now in big name cities such as New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc, and as a result when the immigrants came in they were without money and wanted to move into big cities making Urbanization boom in the U.S.
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Germans
(People) page 267 |
A majority of immigrants in the United States in the 1850s were Geramans and the Irish. By 1850, the Germans were over 20 percent of the foreign-born in America. Most Germans became farmers or went into business in the western towns. Also, most were members of family groups or were single men.
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Irish
(people) page 267 |
A majority of immigrants in the United States in the 1850s were Geramans and the Irish. By 1850, the Irish were 45 percent of the foreign-born in America. Many Irish immigrants were young, single women.They stayed and worked in the eastern cities.
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"Know Nothings"
(people) page 269 |
The Know-Nothings were memebers of the Supreme Order of the Star Spangled Banner which consisted of nativist groups. The group had several demands including banning Catholics or foreign born from holding public office, more restirctive naturalization laws, and literacy tests for voting. The order was very secret and used the password "I know nothing", which is where there name came from.
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